My thanks to everyone for celebrating RETURN TO ME at the book launch party on Sunday at the University Bookstore. There, for two hours, we celebrated the transformation of dust to stardust in stories and lives. After laboring over RETURN TO ME for the better part of two years, it was utterly surreal to see … Read More
Dia Calhoun
Happy Halloween
Calling all Twilight fans who are enjoying this eve. Check out this little something, something for you care of my gorgeous friend, Dia Calhoun, author and letterer.
Filling the Creative Pot
In the throes of my rewrite for my upcoming novel, RETURN TO ME, I’m finding that I need to constantly replenish my creative pot. So the readergirlz co-founders, Lorie Ann Grover (l) and Dia Calhoun (c) and I hit the Triple Door downtown for a fabulous concert with Lucy Woodward. Oh, yes, her lyrics were … Read More
Writing Retreat in the Methow
How could not write for hours with this as your palette? Thanks to my very dear friend, Dia Calhoun (readergirlz co-founder and brilliant fantasy novelist), I had my own personal SPOT in my beloved Methow Valley where I could create RETURN TO ME. Of course, let’s not forget the inspiration that hearing a cougar growling … Read More
Fangirl: Gary Schmidt & Wednesday Wars
One of the best parts of attending librarian conferences has got to be meeting beloved authors. For me, this just doesn’t get better than going to TLA and meeting Gary Schmidt who wrote two of my all-time favorite middle grade novels: The Wednesday Wars and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Pitch perfect in humor … Read More
Hi, Y’all! Off to Texas Librarian Association
The readergirlz co-founders–Dia Calhoun, Lorie Ann Grover, and I–are off to TLA in Houston today for a whirlwind of presentations and dinners! If you’re planning on attending this conference, join us at our key events: Wednesday, 4/16:30-8:30 YART Dinner Thursday, 4/210:30 a.m. TT4L Discussion with Teens 2:00 p.m. readergirlz: making literacy hip and relevant for … Read More
Awww…a love letter…to me!
People are uploading their Find Beauty videos! It’s so exciting…and here’s one from the readergirlz divas: Awwww… I beg to differ. But what are you waiting for? Make your voice heard! Tell the world what True Beauty really means. You’ve got 90 seconds. And for every video that’s uploaded, I’m donating $10 (up to $1,000) … Read More
Acknowledgments: Spotlight on Dia Calhoun
Am I the only one who loves to read an author’s acknowledgments–our version of credits, homage to everyone who touched our book? (Personally, I prefer to read the acknowledgments at the end of the book since it feels like a grace note–the thank you after sharing the work with the reader. I simply don’t get … Read More
The North of Beautiful Geocache-o-rama!
I realize that for most people, hauling out to the incredible North of Beautiful geocache that Dia Calhoun created and placed in the Methow Valley (central Washington state) is almost as impossible as hauling up to Mt. Everest. As well, I recognize that most people do not have a GPS device of their own. (Although … Read More
North of Beautiful: The Official Geocache!
One of the most truly beautiful gifts anyone has ever given to me was made by the multi-talented Dia Calhoun. (She creates art! Writes fantasy! And verse! And fights off cougars!) A few weeks before I left for China last summer, she and Lorie Ann Grover met me in Winthrop–the setting for North of Beautiful. … Read More
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